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Tone recipes·2026 · JUL
Rock1987easy to fake

01U2

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Single-coil clean tone with a moderate delay set to dotted-eighth, but used more sparsely than 'Streets'. The picking is a slow, deliberate arpeggio of open chord voicings — every note articulates separately before the delay catches it. Tone is bright and pillowy at the same time, with amp room ambience adding depth. Capo at the 7th fret puts the riff in a higher register, contributing to the chime.

02Signal chain

Guitar to amp, 2 pedals between.

  1. In
    Guitar

    Fender Stratocaster, capo 7

  2. 01
    Dotted-eighth delay, less prominent than on 'Streets'
    Korg SDD-3000 delay

    Time: ~340ms (dotted eighth at ~132bpm), Feedback: 30%, Mix: 35%

  3. 02
    Spacious hall reverb
    Yamaha SPX90 reverb

    Hall, ~2.5s decay, Mix: 25%

  4. Out
    Amp

    Vox AC30 Top Boost, clean

03Field note

The secret sauce

The capo is doing as much as the delay — at the 7th fret, the same chord shape rings higher and brighter, with shorter string lengths producing more harmonic content. Try this song without a capo and the whole tone collapses.